MEDIA ADVISORY: Baltic-wide oil catastrophe rehearsed (WK-intern) - What Oil response exercise HELCOM Balex Delta 2016 When Tuesday 21 June 2016 at 09.00–15.00 (CET). Operational phase at sea and on the shore. Debriefing at 18.00–19.00 Who Fifteen specially equipped response vessels from eight Baltic coastal countries; Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden, and around 120 participants of the national shoreline response exercise. Where Exercise area at sea: North of Klaipeda port, Lithuania Exercise area on the shore: Karkle beach, north of Klaipeda town in front of Zilvitis camp Exercise debriefing: Amberton Klaipeda Hotel, Naujojo Sodo g. 1C Why The HELCOM Balex Delta exercise simulates a large real life oil